Cigarette holder



Jan. 8, 1957 A. WlDRlCH 2,776,662

CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed April 14, 1953 ATTORNEY United States Patent 1 2,776,662 CIGARETTE HOLDER Anton Widrich, Long Branch, N. J. Application April 14, 1953, Serial No. 348,622 2 Claims. (Cl. 131--175) My invention is an improved cigarette holder; particularly a holder 'by which the user can enjoy a smoke without placing the cigarette directly between the lips at the 1 mouth.

An important object of this invention is to provide a holder which permits smoking in perfect safety, whether the smoker is in a chair or on a couch with cushions, or in a bed. With my improved holder all risk of damage by a smoldering butt is obviated.

To this end the holder comprises a base with means for supporting one or more cigarettes, a tube of required length with a mouthpiece at one end, means for extinguishing the cigarette when it is nearly all consumed, and means for extracting the butt, so that the cigarette can be replaced.

The nature of the invention is set forth clearly in the ensuing description, and the novel features are defined in the claims. On the drawings a preferred embodiment is illustrated, but the disclosure is explanatory only, and variations in details of structure may be adopted without omitting or deviating from any of the essential characteristics of the improvement.

On said drawings,

Figure 1 is a side view of a holder according to my invention;

Figure 2 is a top view thereof;

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a top plan of the base of the holder;

Figure 5 is a sectional detail showing a modification;

Figure 6 is another detail view in plan of the construction shown in Figure 5.

The article comprises a base 1 on the upper face of which is mounted a rotatable carrier 2 having adjacent the rim a number of sockets 3 equidistant from the center. in the base is a duct 4 opening through the side and havmg a port 5 in the top surface of the base in position to register with any one of the sockets 3. A cigarette is placed upright in each of the sockets 3, and can be smoked through a flexible tube or hose 6 connected to the duct 4 by a suitable coupling 7. On the outer end of the tube 6 is a mouthpiece 8.

The base 1 is larger than the carrier or holder 2, and has a comparatively wide and deep groove-9 in its upper face surrounding the carrier 2 to collect ashes and butts. The carrier is pivotally attached to the base by a screw 10; and in the upper face of the base is a recess 11, seating a ball 12. A spring 13 in the recess under the ball holds it in firm engagement with the lower counterbored end 14 of one of the sockets or ducts 3 in the carrier, and this ball is located so that whenever it engages the lower end of one of the ducts 3, another of the ducts 3 will be in communication with the duct 4 in the base. Thus the base can be rotated by hand to bring the sockets 3 one by one into position for the cigarette therein to be smoked, and will be held securely by the retaining ball 12 till the cigarette is entirely consumed. Each socket 3 is counterbored at 15 around its upper end. Fixed to the top of the carrier adjacent each socket is a shank or stem of metal 16, bent at its upper end into a horizontal loop 17. The cigarette is inserted into each socket 3 through the loop 17 above it, which encircles the cigarette and makes contact all around with it; and when the cigarette is burnt down to the loop, the shank 16 and loop 17 absorb heat and cool the cigarette till it is extinguished.

With the section taken along line 3-3 in Figure 2, the half of the construction shown in, Figure 5 contains Patented Jan 8, 1957 not only the loops 17 along the line 3, but also the two loops behind the loops 17 on the section line 33.

Rotatably attached to the carrier by the head of the pivot screw 10 is a butt extractor 18. This extractor is long enough to overlap at either end the sockets 3. Hence, when a cigarette is consumed and extinguished by the loop 17, the extractor can be turned to displace it from the carrier and push it outward so that it will drop into the groove 9. The ends of the element 18 are within 0 the circle of the shanks 16 of the loops 17 (Figure 3) and can be rotated freely.

The device can always-be used without risk of fire or charring cushions, bed clothing, or floor coverings. Even if the smoker wishes to enjoy a cigarette while lying in bed, he only needs to put the holder on a stool beside the bed, within easy reach.

The cigarette will be extinguished as it burns down and the smouldering end reaches the level of the loop 17, even if the smoker goes to sleep, or the holder is otherwise unattended.

The holder can also be made for cigars, if desired, and Well serves all the purposes of this invention.

Figure 3 shows an unlighted cigarette in the carrier and another which has been consumed down to the loop 17 around it and in process of extinction.

Figure 5 and Figure 6 show another type of extractor. The base 1 has a recess 19 in position to register with each of the openings 3, and in this recess is a plug 20 movably attached to an arm 21 and mounted on a short shaft 22. The opposite end of this shaft is exposed on the outside of the base and there carries an operating arm 23. The recess 20 is of course extended to permit movement of the arm 21 and when the outside arm 23 is depressed the plug 20 is lifted and the cigarette butt is pushed out of the socket 3. All this appears in Figure 6 showing part of the base 1 with the carrier 2 removed. The inside arm 21 can move freely in an extension at one side of a recess 19 and this arm has a pin 24 which enters an arc-shaped groove 25 in plug 20. Hence the movement of the arm 21 is limited.

The carrier 2 may have recesses 26 in its arm.

Having described my invention, what I believe to be new is:

1. A cigarette holder comprising a carrier to be rotata'bly mounted about its center on a base, the carrier having sockets open at the upper and lower faces thereof for the insertion of cigarettes, and movable to cause each socket to register with a port in said base, and metallic extinguisher loops supported on said carrier above the top thereof in line with said sockets.

2. The cigarette holder according to claim 1, in which sad loops have shanks inserted into the carrier adjacent the sockets.

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